You are here: SriPedia - Oppiliappan - Archives - Apr 2006

Oppiliappan List Archive: Message 00034 Apr 2006

 
Apr 2006 Indexes ( Date | Thread | Author )
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]


SrI:

Dear  MahA Lakshmi BhakthAs:

  In the Fourth slOkam of Naama Vaibhava sTaBakam , ArasANippAlai Kavi
  instructs us that the sankeerthanam of our Divine Mother's naamAs will
  banish our AasA-Paasams and mohams driven by manO vikArams ( Kaamams 
  caused by ManmathA's arrows)  :

  pachEshu-chApala-palAyana-siddha-manthram
    gaNDA-visEsha-ninadham kuhanA-piSAchyA:
  kOpAnala-praSama-sAnthva-vachO MurArE:
    kE nAma nAma na japanthy tavABdhikanyE 

  The key words of this slOkam are: aBdhi KanyE ! Tava nAma kE nAma na Japanthy 
?

  The poet asks here a rhetorical question ( Oh Daughter of the Ocean ! who 
indeed will not 
  meditate on Your divine names ?) and answers in the affirmative : Every one 
does ! 

  Your nAmAs are boon granting and wish yielding in many ways and hence there 
would be 
  no one , who will stay away from reciting and reflecting on the vaibhavam of 
Your nAmAs .

  Anvaya Kramam: aBdhi kanyE ! Pancha ishu chApala palAyana siddha manthram ,
  kuhanA piSAchyA: gaNDA visEsha ninadham MurArE: kOpa anala praSama
  sAnthva vacha: Tava nAma kE naama na japanthy ?

  ABdhi KanyE = Oh Daughter of the Ocean !

  Pancha ishu chApala palAyana siddha mantram = Your nAmam is a siddha manthram 
that 
  drives away the distortions to the mind caused by the five flower arrows of 
Manmathan.
  We would have to recall in this context the differences between siddha 
manthram and 
  sAdhya manthram based on our understanding of siddhOpAyam and SaadhyOpAyam
  dealt in detail in Swamy Desikan's Srimath Rahasya Thraya Saaram .

  KuhanA piSAchyA: ganDA visEsha ninAdhm ( ninAdha mantram) = It is the 
sunAdham from 
  the ringing of a special kind of bell that drives away the ghost of deception 
( vanchanai)
  that deludes and tricks the mind to travel in paths forbidden by the 
Saasthrams of BhagavAn .
  To relate to KuhanA piSAsu , we can think about PuthanA , who came to infant 
KrishNA's 
  side to breast feed Him with her poisonous milk and she got destroyed in turn 
. When the sound
  of the bell in the form of Your divine names  like PadhmA , IndhirA , LakshmI 
are heard , 
  the categories of ghouls and ghosts coming under the name of PiSAsu take 
flight and never
  return to their favorite places in the minds of SamsAris.This nAdham is an 
unique kind of peeling of the bell.
  It is the announcement of Dayaa Devi from the top of the hills of 
ThiruvEnkatam declaring war on
  these PisAsus and chasing them away from their special perches . This is 
indeed a VisEsha 
  gaNDA ninadham . This could also be considered as the Powerful rakshaNa 
manthram 
  arising from the AchAryan next to the Lord (MahA Lakshmi) in our Guru 
Paramparai .

  MurArE: kOpa anala praSama sAnthathva vacha: = The sound of this manthram ( 
Your naama
  ucchAraNam) is extraordinarily effective in quenching the fires of anger that 
the Lord has
  over the many and repeated transgressions of the bhaddha Jeevans . The nAmAs 
of Yours
  gaNDA naadhams ) have the PurushAkAram effect and the Lord's anger is quelled 
. The way 
  in which the intercession in favor of the offending jeevan is achieved by 
MahA Lakshmi and 
  Her amsa bhUthais ( BhU , GodhA and NeeLA and Dayaa Devis) is described at 
great length in 
  Sri Sthuthi , BhU Sthuthi and GodhA sthuthi . The bhakthAs are referred to 
the e-books on Sri , 
  BhU and GodhA sthuthis and Dayaa Sathakam at the Sundara Simham web site :

  http://www.sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ebook1.htm  (Sri Sthuthi)

  http://www.sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ebook2.htm   (BhU Sthuthi)

  http://www.sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ebook3.htm    ( GodhA Sthuthi)

  http://www.sundarasimham.org/ebooks/ebook16.htm   ( Dayaa Sathakam ) 

  Tava nAma kE nAma na japanthy ? = who indeed would not recite
  Your auspicious and powerful nAmAs to gain the soubhAgyams
  and ultimately sath-gathi ? Engagement in the recitation of Your 
  dhivya Naamams will destroy the disaster yielding kAmams ,
  Mohams and banish the anger of Your Lord over our daring
  acts that defy His commands ( Aj~NA Ullanganam) .  

  ( Addiitonal Commentary on the words and passages ): 
  ***********************************************************************
  1. Pancha Ishu : Manmathan , the son of the Lord is the Pancha BhANan ( Five 
flower arrows 
  that he uses to kindle kAmams). Even ANDAL prays to him to unite Her with Her 
Lord in
  the first decad of Her NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi .

  2. Pancha chApa ishu chApalam = the longings between the lovers , the joy and
  the sorrow caused from union and seperation ( samslEsham and vislEsham) , the 
mental agony
  to be reunited , the anxieties caused by seperation are grouped under the 
word " ChApaLam".
  These are chApala vikArams as long as they are not centered on the Lord to 
seek His companionship.

  3. Pancha ishu chApala palAyana siddha mantram= These destructive ChApalams 
caused by
  the five arrows of Manmanthan that keeps us away from the Lord are driven 
away by 
  the siddha mantram of Your nAmAs.They are tAraka , pOshaka , ujjevana 
mantrams.
  Reciting them is equivalent to the efforts of ManthrOpAsakan , who is engaged 
in dhyAnam of 
  His upAsanaa Murthy after performing purascharaNam with niyamams and 
nishtais.On recitation
  of Your nAmAs, the chapalams run away , the desires of a negative kind are 
burnt to their roots.
  The effect of " maRRai namm kAmangaL mARRElO yem paavai " is gained by the 
reciter. It is 
  the sidhda Manthram that has existed forever ; it s a Prasiddha mantram . It 
helps us to travel
  in "gathi visEsham " of archirAdhi mArgam and enjoy the boon of ParipoorNa 
BrahmAnandham 
  at the Supreme abode of the dhivya dampathis. 

  When one recites Her sahasra NaamAs like "Lakshmi , Padhmaa , Indhiraa " , 
Manmathan recognizes
  that the reciter is eulogizing his own dear Mother and does not cause any 
buddhi chApalyam to
  the reciter. He creates the Saanthi rasam instead of SrungAra rasam in the 
mind of the reciter.

  4. Guhanaa = Vanchanai , deceptive acts causing delusion ( chittha bramai) : 
Guhanaa is like 
  a hiding ghost( PisAsu, BhUtham , bad spirit , Mohini ) and can cause serious 
damage leading all
  the way upto untimely death . The recitation of Your names such as "SarOjaa , 
HariNee , ChandrA , 
  Padhmini , SaarngiNee, VaishNavee et al " have the same effect as the ringing 
of the GaNDA 
  during Bhagavath AarAdhanam , when all ill meaning spirits ( asura sakthis) 
are chased away .
  This is the GaNDA viSEsha nAdham . It is also equivalent to the Naadham 
generated by 
  BhagavAn's Paadhuakais , which is nothing but the sound of   AchAryAn. The 
Naadha Paddhathi of
  Sri Ranganatha PadhukA sahasram celebrates the glories of that naadham in 100 
verses 
  (SlOkams381-480) :

  http://www.sadagopan.org/srps/srps14.1.htm

  5. MurArE: kOpa anala praSama sAnthathva vacha: = The sound of Your nAmAs 
quench the raging fire of 
  the Lord's anger ( MurAri kOpa analam) . The just anger of Your Lord over our 
many and unceasing trespasses
  is in the form of nigraha krOdhAgni . That gets quenched by the potent fire 
extinguisher represented by 
  the power of  Your auspicious names.Your Lord's anugraha sakthi sprouts forth 
and forgives the aparAdhis.

  6. kE naama nAma: =   Who indeed will not perform Your nAma japam ? Even 
those , who do not have 
  the patience and discipline ( niyama nishtais) will recite Your dhivya nAmAs 
since they constitute a siddha
  manthram.The sinners , the punyasAlis , the powerful , the feeble minded ones 
, all of them , recite Your
  nAmAs to derive the benefits ( freedom from the anger of Your Lord ).

  Sriman KaNNan Swamy's Tamil summary of this slOkam is beautiful to include 
here:

  Manmathan sey manacchapalam mARRividum mantiram
  mOsadiyAm mOhini mEl mOthuhira mani oliyAm
  Murararipuvin muLLsinatthai muRiyadikkum muthu mozhiyAm
  muRikadalin mahaL peyarai mozhiyAthAr yevar uLarO ? 

  Srimathyai MahA Lakshmyai NamO nama:
  Daasan , Oppiliapan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan     







    

      

    

    


  Sreemathyai MahA Lakshmyai Nama:
  Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan        








[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index ] [Thread Index ] [Author Index ]
Home Page
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia
oppiliappan-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
To subscribe to the list